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Occupy Turkey: "S.O.B. Tayyip"

Photographed at a taxi stop in Izmir.
A friend of mine told me O.Ç. stands for "S.O.B." [I should have known]. Anyway, as I get older, I see profanity to be useless. That said, what is the greater insult, looting a nation's wealth and ordering police to crush protestors, or calling someone S.O.B.

These days, all governments really serve the global elite; special interests, international banks, and multinational corporations. National leaders are nothing but puppets of these supranational forces. Erdogan will go down, as did the Ukrainian leader Yanukovych. He will be replaced by another puppet that will implement the same policies used to rape people of their resources. The ongoing East-West contest in Ukraine is actually not about the people of Ukraine, or Russia, or the European Union. It is a resource struggle between the Russian elite, the European elite and the American elite. The people come after the elite, or in many cases, they don't matter at all; Nor does the environment or democracy...